TY - BOOK AU - Mayes,Frances TI - Under the Tuscan sun: at home in Italy SN - 9780553506679 PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Bantam Books KW - Mayes, Frances. KW - Cookery, Italian KW - Tuscany (Italy) KW - Description and travel KW - Social life and customs N2 - Francis Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - opens the door on a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. She finds faded frescoes beneath the whitewash in the dining room, a vineyard under wildly overgrown brambles - and even a wayward scorpion under her pillow. And from her traditional kitchen and simple garden she creates dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, all included in this book ER -